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Commissioning original programming to reduce its reliance on partners and formally entering the production market, Netflix has finally released Lilyhammer, its first piece of original content available to US, Canadian and Latin American subscribers. Lilyhammer is a Norweigan-American comic drama that stars Sopranos actor Steven Van Zandt as a New York...

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Some of us can’t be bothered to check in, but still want to find interesting people nearby. The challenge for developers is how to do this in a way that is both useful and not creepy. Glancee, available for both iOS and Android, gets closer to solving these problems than...

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Lillyhammer, Netflix's first original series (shortly to be followed by the probably awful remake of House of Cards and Arrested Development Series 4) commenced streaming today. Little Steven (Van Zandt, of E-Street Band and Sopranos fame) plays wholly against type as a mafioso despatched by the witness protection program...

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Netflix has announced that it will bring its original TV show Lillyhammer to the UK and Ireland, picking up the rights to stream the Norwegian comedy drama following a deal with the show’s German distributor SevenOne International. Lillyhammer will debut on UK televisions later this year after being snapped up by the BBC,...

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SPOILERS. Who can't name a beloved TV series that didn't end the way you wanted? BSG? Lost? Sapphire and Steel? Blake's Seven? Quantum Leap? The Sopranos? All of which ended either with tear-inducing bum-notes or confusing conclusions that caused furious head scratching. Despite that, the traditional reaction is to...

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Netflix has officially begun distributing its own original content: its new series Lilyhammer is now available to stream on your computer or Netflix-enabled device. All eight 45-minute episodes of the first "season" are available right on schedule, so if you're the kind of person who prefers to plow right...

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Today three major entertainment apps are now available for Xbox LIVE Gold members – Comcast XFINITY TV, HBO GO and MLB.TV, all with Kinect integration. Here are the highlights. Comcast launched the XFINITY TV on-demand service on Xbox 360, bringing its huge library of when- you-want-it entertainment to a console...

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Ok, so HBO won’t sell its streaming, on-demand video service as a standalone service to cord cutters and other folks who don’t want to pay a premium for it. We’ve established that. But for those of you who do subscribe to HBO through the typical cable channels, the cable network...

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The debut season of Netflix’s first original series “Lilyhammer” is now available on demand to all Netflix “Watch Instantly” subscribers. All eight episodes of the series’ first season can be streamed beginning Tuesday, and the show is available in high definition. Lilyhammer is the first in a string of...

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One week after the BBC announced it was rolling out iPlayer on Xbox Live, we can reveal that HBO Go, Comcast Xfinity, and Major League Baseball (MLB.TV) also arriving on the online entertainment service for Xbox 360 from today. Launched in February 2010, HBO Go is available in the US...

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Hulu just announced a major content partnership with HBO for its Japanese subscription service that will make older episodes of shows like Entourage, Sex and the City and The Sopranos available to Japanese audiences. Shows will be available on Hulu Japan for a limited time, and the release will be...

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HBO on Wednesday announced that its popular video streaming app HBO GO has launched for the Amazon Kindle Fire. Available immediately as a free download for Amazon’s tablet in the Amazon Appstore, HBO GO allows HBO subscribers with service through certain cable providers to stream HBO content such as...

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The HBO Go streaming service debuted on Kindle Fire today, bringing the popular mobile app to Amazon’s tablet. HBO says the app provides access to more than 1,400 titles, including every episode of top HBO shows including Game of Thrones, True Blood, The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire and others. The app...

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I get giddy around big television events. The Lost finale this weekend certainly qualifies and a big question is, "Will fans of the show be satisfied with how it ends?" From Seinfeld to the Sopranos (for different reasons), series finales have a history of being disappointing. In this way, it's...

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Hampton Stevens takes stock of the show that just ended its eighth and final season:24 is the most influential TV drama of all time. There isn't even a close second. No other series—not The Sopranos, The Wire, Hill Street Blues, or ER, has had a tenth of the cultural...

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At the risk of underselling it, Steven Van Zandt is a New Jersey legend. He's a guitarist in the Garden State's most iconic ensemble, Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band, and was one of the stars of the state's most famous TV show, "The Sopranos." So it only makes sense that...

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Today HBO announced it will be making its movies and TV Shows available on the Web to subscribers through HBO Go, which up until now has been in private beta. HBO Go is part of the cable industry’s TV Everywhere strategy to make TV content available online to paying...

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Tomorrow night is the series finale of Lost. Warning: Spoilers. Don't read if you're not caught up. I've watched the show for all six years. My interest has ebbed and flowed. I don't think it's that great a show, nothing like The Wire or even The Sopranos or Six Feet...